Feedback -- Uncharted 3 & Battlefield 3 Impressions

Crash486

I actually agree completely with Adam on the Uncharted 3 plot. It started out with the makings for an extremely deep, emotionally driven plot which touched on Drake's need for adventure and how Sully was getting older. I really felt they were going to take the story full force in that direction, and I set myself up for that emotional climax which... never really came to pass. I thought the desert scene was absolutely amazing to play through, but from that part where the Bedouins show up to the end of the game, I felt the plot was kind of cliche, trite, and really paralleled UC2 a bit too much. That being said, I think I liked the concept of the supernatural powers in UC3 more than that of those in 2, and i felt the final "boss battle" was more fitting than the shotgun fight in the enchanted forest at the end of 2, but overall I think the story really did fall apart at the end.

I'm thinking the reason for this, honestly, was the way the story was shaping up towards the beginning, would taken the narrative down a path towards the conclusion of the Uncharted franchise.

Also, no one's going to read this anyway, but emotionally scene from a video game which actually resonated with me so strongly that I still think about that scene to this day as the pinnacle of emotional story telling in video games. At the end of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake eater, when the game forces you to pull the trigger on The Boss, that moment was really heart wrenching. I actually sat there and stared at the screen, hoping that if i didn't pull the a trigger, an alternate ending would present itself, but alas i didn't. To this day, I still remember the sound of the gunshot reverberating over my speakers, and the shock I felt over what I had just done.